come

When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.

If you come across something or someone, you find them or meet them by chance.

If someone or what they are saying comes across in a particular way, they make that impression on people who meet them or are listening to them.

You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.

When something or someone comes along, they occur or arrive by chance.

If something is coming along, it is developing or making progress.

If a person or animal comes at you, they move towards you in a threatening way and try to attack you.

If someone comes back to a place, they return to it.

If something that you had forgotten comes back to you, you remember it.

When something comes back, it becomes fashionable again.

If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.

To come by something means to obtain it or find it.

If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.

If something comes down, it falls to the ground.

If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side.

If you come down on someone, you criticize them severely or treat them strictly.

If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.

If you come down with an illness, you get it.

If people such as soldiers or police come for you, they come to find you, usually in order to harm you or take you away, for example to prison.

If someone comes forward, they make themselves known and offer to help.

If information, a report, or a telephone call comes in, it is received.

If you have some money coming in, you receive it regularly as your income.

If someone comes in on a discussion, arrangement, or task, they join it.

When a new idea, fashion, or product comes in, it becomes popular or available.

If you ask where something or someone comes in, you are asking what their role is in a particular matter.

When the tide comes in, the water in the sea gradually moves so that it covers more of the land.

If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.

If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it.

If someone or something comes into a situation, they have a role in it.

If something comes off, it is successful or effective.

If someone comes off worst in a contest or conflict, they are in the worst position after it. If they come off best, they are in the best position.

You say 'come off it' to someone to show them that you think what they are saying is untrue or wrong.

If you have an illness or a headache coming on, you can feel it starting.

If something or someone is coming on well, they are developing well or making good progress.

When something such as a machine or system comes on, it starts working or functioning.

You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to do something they do not want to do.

You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to hurry up.

If someone comes on to you, they show that they are interested in starting a sexual relationship with you.

When a new product such as a book or CD comes out, it becomes available to the public.

If a fact comes out, it becomes known to people.

When a gay person comes out, they let people know that they are gay.

To come out in a particular way means to be in the position or state described at the end of a process or event.

If you come out for something, you declare that you support it. If you come out against something, you declare that you do not support it.

When the sun, moon, or stars come out, they appear in the sky.

When a group of workers comes out on strike, they go on strike.

If a feeling or desire, especially a strange or surprising one, comes over you, it affects you strongly.

If someone or what they are saying comes over in a particular way, they make that impression on people who meet them or are listening to them.

If someone comes over to your house or another place, they visit you there.

If someone comes round to your house, they come there to see you.

If you come round to an idea, you eventually change your mind and accept it or agree with it.

When something comes round, it happens as a regular or predictable event.

When someone who is unconscious comes round, they become conscious again.

To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.

If a feeling or message comes through, it is clearly shown in what is said or done.

If something comes through, it arrives, especially after some procedure has been carried out.

If you come through with what is expected or needed from you, you succeed in doing or providing it.

When someone who is unconscious comes to, they become conscious.

If you come under attack or pressure, for example, people attack you or put pressure on you.

If something comes under a particular authority, it is managed or controlled by that authority.

If something comes under a particular heading, it is in the category mentioned.

If someone comes up or comes up to you, they approach you until they are standing close to you.

If something comes up in a conversation or meeting, it is mentioned or discussed.

If something is coming up, it is about to happen or take place.

If something comes up, it happens unexpectedly.

If a job comes up or if something comes up for sale, it becomes available.

When the sun or moon comes up, it rises.

In law, when a case comes up, it is heard in a court of law.

If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.

You can use the expression when it comes down to it or when you come down to it for emphasis, when you are giving a general statement or conclusion.

You use the expression come to think of it to indicate that you have suddenly realized something, often something obvious.

When you refer to a time or an event to come or one that is still to come, you are referring to a future time or event.

You can use expressions like I know where you're coming from or you can see where she's coming from to say that you understand someone's attitude or point of view.

You can use come before a date, time, or event to mean when it arrives. For example, you can say come spring to mean 'when the spring arrives'.

When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.

When someone comes to do something, they move to the place where someone else is in order to do it, and they do it. Someone can also come do something and come and do something. However, you always say that someone came and did something.

When you come to a place, you reach it.

If something comes up to a particular point or down to it, it is tall enough, deep enough, or long enough to reach that point.

If something comes apart or comes to pieces, it breaks into pieces. If something comes off or comes away, it becomes detached from something else.

If someone comes to do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time.

You can ask how something came to happen when you want to know what caused it to happen or made it possible.

When a particular event or time comes, it arrives or happens.

If a thought, idea, or memory comes to you, you suddenly think of it or remember it.

If money or property is going to come to you, you are going to inherit or receive it.

If a case comes before a court or tribunal or comes to court, it is presented there so that the court or tribunal can examine it.

If something comes to a particular number or amount, it adds up to it.

If someone or something comes from a particular place or thing, that place or thing is their origin, source, or starting point.

Something that comes from something else or comes of it is the result of it.

If someone or something comes first, next, or last, they are first, next, or last in a series, list, or competition.

If a type of thing comes in a particular range of colours, forms, styles, or sizes, it can have any of those colours, forms, styles, or sizes.

The next subject in a discussion that you come to is the one that you talk about next.

You use come in expressions such as come to an end or come into operation to indicate that someone or something enters or reaches a particular state or situation.